AFGE Council 222 v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Fair and Equitable Pay Grievance

In November 2002, AFGE Council of Locals, Council 222 filed a class-action type grievance pursuant to the Parties’ Collective Bargaining Agreement, alleging that the Agency violated numerous provisions of the CBA in its hiring processes. Specifically, the Union alleged that the Agency was hiring employees from outside the Agency, and allowed them to have higher promotion potential, than already employed individuals while at the same time requiring existing employees to take a downgrade in order to be eligible for the eventual higher position. The Union also alleged that the Agency was requiring the existing (and lower-graded) employees to train the new hires who would eventually leapfrog them in grade and pay.

Snider and Associates, on behalf of the Union pursued the grievance to arbitration and has prevailed numerous times before the Arbitrator and FLRA in Decisions and Awards between 2002 and the present.

UPDATE: On May 24, 2018, in an unprecedented and egregious overreach of Authority, the FLRA reversed more than a decade of prior rulings which were final and binding and vacated all prior decisions and awards. Such a ruling if final, would effectively end this Grievance. The Union has filed a Motion for Reconsideration which is pending a decision, and is also considering other options on appeal.